Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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Taste the joy That springs from labor.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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To be strong is to be happy!

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Nothing that is can pause or stay.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

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The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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Life like an empty dream flits by.

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The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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